Word: tree
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...night long crowds lined the Rue Royale and the squares before the Royal Palace and the Church of St. Gudule. Before dawn the roofs were black with watchers and one exhausted patriot had fallen out of a tree and been killed. Soon police and soldiers began to line the route along which Albert's body would pass. About breakfast time hawkers were passing up & down selling rolls and chocolate bars and mirrors on sticks for short people to see over the crowd...
...Harvard Photographic Society, in an attempt to bring out the fact that photography has an artistic side, plans to present a unique exhibit of winter scenes. One of the unusual prints will be a night picture of a tree in the Yard covered with snow. Another is a view of an ice-bound ship showing the propeller and rudder deep under the surface. Some snow scenes photographed from an airplane will probably be shown...
...what happens to twelve members of a British cavalry troop in Mesopotamia in 1915. Arabs, firing from ambush, kill the troop's captain. The rest reach an oasis. The first night, Arabs shoot a sentry, steal the horses. The next morning a cockney soldier climbs a palm tree to get a look at the enemy. He topples down with a bullet in his heart. The sergeant (Victor McLaglen) draws lots, sends two of his men to scout for help. They come back dead, strapped to the backs of horses. A rescue plane lands on the sand; the pilot...
...first term of the first U. S. President was just ending when the New York Stock Exchange was founded under the buttonwood tree in Wall Street in 1792. No broker ever became President and few much of anything else. But in the last 142 years the members of the Stock Exchange have perfected a method of buying & selling securities which functions with mathematical precision and a code of financial conduct which is the highest in the world. Its 1,375 members, the best-dressed group of men in the U. S., have conferred on their officials absolute and arbitrary powers...
...When was "Schooldays" published? "Under the Bamboo Tree?" "Asleep in the Deep...